Fuzzy AHP Based Decision Support System for SKTM Recipient Selection

Surat Keterangan Tidak Mampu (SKTM) is a letter iss ued by the City of Sukabumi government to help poor citizens with bene fits in medical treatment. The applicants are assessed by the local Village to determine the eligibility and amount of benefit to be granted. Th is process had a problem that the decision made was mostly subjective and ba sed on vaguely defined criteria’s. This could result in the improper categ orization and inappropriate distribution of benefits. A Decision Support System is designed to overcome this problem in the form of Recommendation System u sing Fuzzy AHP method. This method is used as the mathematical mod el f r determining the weights of and refines the assessment of each crite rion. The proposed system will calculate the scores of the applicants based o n the model and show their poverty categories along with the amount of allowed b nefits. The amount of funding is also become more evenly spread across 6 poverty categories compared to the previous 4 categories thus saving m ore funds to be used for other development programs.